Call For
Papers for a Special Session on DSmT
at Fusion 2008 International Conference on Information
Fusion,
Cologne, Germany, July 2008
www.fusion2008.org
Title of the special session : Advances and
Applications of DSmT for Information Fusion
Organizers : Dr. Jean Dezert, ONERA (French National Establishment for Aerospace Research), BP 72 F-92322 Chatillon Cedex, France,
& Dr. Florentin Smarandache, Chair of Math & Sciences Department, University of New Mexico, Gallup, NM 87301, USA ;
Contact: jean.dezert@onera.fr, jdezert@gmail.com, smarand@unm.edu, fsmarandache@yahoo.com
Keywords:
Data Fusion,
Information fusion, Dezert-Smarandache Theory (DSmT), Decision-making support, combination, uncertainty,
paradoxes, conflicts, Belief functions, artificial intelligence, expert
systems, conflict management, qualitative information.
Abstract :
The
combination of information is a hot topic of research especially in the
development of complex systems involving imprecise, uncertain and potentially
highly conflicting information/data with usually (but not necessarily) human
interaction at some higher fusion level for efficient decision-making. Modern multisensor systems for tracking, classification,
diagnosis, situation assessment, decision-making support, etc need solid
theoretical tools to combine efficiently information in order to reduce as best
as possible ignorances and contradictions in a
coherent way to help to take proper decision. This task is very difficult and
many theories (probability theory, possibility theory, Dempster-Shafer
theory (DST), etc) have been proposed to deal with
different kinds of uncertainties (randomness, fuzzyness,
epistemic uncertainty, etc). The goal of
this special session devoted to Advances and Applications of DSmT for Information
Fusion, is
to federate and extend the growing
community of researchers interested in this new emerging area of data fusion by presenting
their new results related with DSmT
in the fields of
applications they work. We encourage potential authors to submit their contributions for this
session either directly to organizers of this session or by using the regular
submission procedure available on Fusion 2008 web site (and
choosing this special session as target). All submitted papers for this session must follow the Fusion 2008 typesetting
guidelines and will be reviewed by the regular Fusion 2008 review process. All submitted papers for this session must fit with the topics of interest
listed below. For any questions or problems, please contact directly the organizers of this special session. Thank you in advance
for your contribution and your interest in DSmT.
DSmT Web
page : http://www.gallup.unm.edu/~smarandache/DSmT.htm.
Topics of interest includes:
1)
Theoretical advances in DSmT
2)
Connection and comparison of classic data fusion
approaches with DSmT
3)
Dynamic/temporal fusion of sources of information
4)
Decision making under uncertainty in DSmT framework
5)
Management of human intelligence and
fusion of qualitative beliefs
6)
Challenges and open questions on data fusion of uncertain, incomplete, imprecise and high
conflicting sources of information
7)
Applications of DSmT in data association, image
fusion, tracking, security,
classification, situation awareness, finance, e-economy, medicine, robotics, biometrics, information
retrieval, etc
Deadline for paper draft submission: February 15th, 2008
Important Note: Please contact the special session organizers asap if extra delay is necessary to submit your paper
draft.